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we are doing something today that the Democrat-controlled Congress over the past 40 years could never bring itself to do. Today we are going to vote on a line-item veto to give the President, regardless of party affiliation, the ability to…
every year someone invents a new term for the line-item veto. We have had enhanced rescission authority, we have had impoundment control, we have had expedited rescission, and other names too numerous to list. But while the names have…
those of us from the ski country, U.S.A. can rest a little easier right now because the U.S. Government is on the job. The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission has just released a report which concludes that most snow boarding…
the main goal of the Contract With America is to make Government smaller, less costly and less intrusive. And there is probably no better way to do this than to address the question of OSHA. When OSHA first issued its safety regulations in…
Every year, we hear the same arguments used against the balanced budget amendment: it is unnecessary, binding, and a blot on the Constitution. We are told we need to tighten our belts, make the tough choices, stand up to special interest…
the game works like this: Congress comes up with an idea which is supposed to help people, but Congress is broke, and so Congress passes a bill anyway and sends it off to the States and falls all over itself claiming credit for a job well…
in the real world, nationalized health care means waiting for health care. In Canada, waiting for health care is a way of life. Canadians wait for routine checkups. They wait for major surgery. For Canadians who describe themselves in…
as the Congress works its way through the appropriations process, the American people should ask themselves: Are we getting our money's worth? We worked on a foreign operations spending bill last month, and soon we will be working on the…
today I would like to talk about a subject that has bothered me since I came to Congress in 1987, and that is the steady erosion of America's eminence in space, and particularly the space launch industry. When I came to Congress, we had…
President Clinton has hired superlawyer Robert Bennett to defend him against charges of sexual harassment. I wonder if Mr. Bennett will also defend the President's foreign policy. If he could do that, Bennett would really be a superlawyer…
the spring issue of Audacity magazine has an article on Malcom McClean. He is the man who invented those intermodal containers that you see used on trains, trucks, and ships. Here is a real self-made man with a high school education who…
President Clinton has a new strategy for dodging the blame on Whitewater. He claims this is all just a partisan attack from Republicans. Then, he claims Republicans are using it to hold up government. I would say to my colleagues that the…
Mr. Chairman, the amendment I am offering today will abolish the Economic Development Administration. I have offered similar amendments to abolish the EDA in the past and, I have to say, it is not easy--it is hard on friendships. People…
the funding included in H.R. 2442 for the Economic Development Administration is $10 million above the President's request for fiscal year 1995. The amendment I have at the desk would cut the additional $10 million from the EDA and restore…
just to deal with the figures the gentleman from West Virginia [Mr. Wise] talked about, we can talk about the fact that this number comes from here and that number comes from there, but the bottom line is that when we figure it up, the…
Yes, the EDA has done some good things. There is no question about that. I did not say that some good wasn't done. I did not say, as someone suggested, that the United States does not need economic development. I said they do not need the…
over the last few days, I've contacted local law enforcement in my congressional district and asked them this question: During the last 3 years, how many killings in your jurisdiction have involved the use of a semi-automatic assault…
55 percent of the American people think President Bill Clinton is not an effective world leader. According to a new poll 99 percent of the world leaders agree with the American people's assessment. It is time for Bill Clinton to turn his…
watching Bill and Hillary explain their finances reminds me of an old Steve Martin routine in which he explains how to make $1 million without paying taxes. First, he says, get $1 million. Then, when the IRS comes to ask why you have not…
the President will face the Nation in a press conference tonight. Here are some questions I hope the media asks: Why won't the vast majority of Democrats in Congress support your health care bill? Why won't the Democrats allow hearings on…
Put your schemes away, is the message the American people are sending to the Clinton White House. Put your socialist health care scheme away. The American people do not want the Government to run their health care system. They do not want…
a few days ago the First Lady accused Republicans of launching a well-organized effort to undermine the President with the Whitewater affair. Well organized? I have been a Republican a long, long time, and I have heard lots of adjectives…
200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson wrote that if he could add just one amendment to the Constitution, it would be a prohibition against Congress borrowing money. Such an amendment, he reasoned, would defend the American people from the…
listen to all the crowing. I have never heard so many caws and cackles in my life. Apparently, somebody just let the Democratic Party know that the economy is growing. That is a good thing. As usual, though, the Democrats got it wrong…
in his State of the Union Address, Clinton told us that as long as he is President, the military will be the best equipped, best trained, and best prepared fighting force on the face of the Earth. No more cuts, he stood right there and…
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